Introduction
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This post contains all information about the Springtime Base, both methods of obtaining it (with full Farm Fest Quest details), methods of obtaining the Materials for it, all information about the Spring Picnic Guests, with their actual orders and Lunch Boxes received as Rewards and at the end, some information about changes in the game with the new Update.
The Springtime Base
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You still can obtain 1 Springtime Base from the Lighthouse Mission if you did not complete the Mission previously. (Still active, according to our group member, Melissa Elder.) You can obtain a SECOND Springtime Base by merging the materials in your Factory. All tasks for the Farm Fest Quest that will give you a Springtime Base is given at the end of this post.
It looks as though only ONE Springtime Base can be made by any player in the Factory so if you want two, you need to have one from the Lighthouse Mission.
Note, as previously indicated, that you now can merge a Springtime Base in the Factory when you have collected sufficient materials. Materials for the Springtime Base will be given in a series of activities. The first is the Cooking Bag Stand where you randomly can find a material in the March Cooking Bags. To forge a Springtime Base you will need 12 Spring Wreath from the Cooking Stand bags, 6 Picnic Soda and 40 Lunch Box. The 6 Picnic Sodas were obtained from the highlighted Order on the Daily Order Board through 30 March, now no longer an active option.
Note that you can purchase the Spring Wreath and the Picnic Soda now in the Daily Special section of the Market. The Spring Wreath costs 70 TC and the Picnic Soda costs 70 TC as well.
The new game update and the changes in the game it brings are discussed at the very end of this post. One section deals with Batch Cleaning and Clean Tickets.
Spring Picnic Guests
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The new Spring Picnic Guest Groups found in the lower left corner of your Guest House Menu will give you the 3rd and final Material required to merge a Springtime Base in the Factory.
You should receive a total of 2 Lunch Boxes from the 1 Star Group consisting of only 2 Guests. The 2 Star Group consists of 4 Guests but you may not receive a Lunch Box from each of them. In two separate Visits, I received only a total of 2 Lunch Boxes from the entire Group. In another visit, however, the 2 Star Group did give me 4 Lunch Boxes... it therefore is random to some extent for the 2 Star Group and the 3 Star Groups. I posted actual order lists below but your results could be either better or worse. With the 3 Star Guests, I found that the ratio of Lunch Box Rewards to Guest Orders was pitiful! One Guest in the 3 Star Group requires 8 Orders and on two separate visits, I received NO Lunch Box from her!
Provided you have a total of 10 Paths on your Farm, you can use a Passport to invite the 1 Star Group of Guests immediately. These consist of Huey and Antonio. They each give four Orders and, provided you complete all of them, each should give you 1 Lunch Box Material for the Base. I use the word 'should' as it may be random actually, but the probabilities are very high with the 1 Star Group, unlike the 2 and 3 Star Groups where probability of receiving a Lunch Box appears to be far lower.
As of Sunday, 2 April, the best value is the 1 Star Guest Group that never has failed to give 2 Lunch Boxes. I have invited all of them repeatedly but many times, you fill more orders at the higher star levels but do not receive more Lunch Boxes. It always IS RANDOM, but results should be better! If Support changes the odds of receiving Lunch Boxes, I will update this.
Advantages of inviting 2 or 3 Star Guest Groups
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If you have not been playing the game long, I suggest you look at the actual Order Lists for the 2 Star and 3 Star Guest Groups before you use your Telescopes, in particular, to unlock 2 and 3 Star. Remember that the Spring Picnic Guests are a temporary addition to Mootopia. There is no permanent advantage to unlocking the 2 or 3 Star Groups if you cannot fill the orders easily.
The number of Lunch Boxes you receive always is RANDOM and the odds are very much NOT in our favour for the 2 and 3 Star Guests. What then are the advantages of using your Passport for the 2 Star or 3 Star Groups?
If you need to increase the Level of your Pets, obviously you will benefit in THAT respect from the 2 and 3 Star Groups, some members of which have higher stamina cost than others. On the other hand, if you are in this position, you may benefit more from using your Pets to take Orders from the permanent Guest groups that give Pet Cards as their Rewards.
Ideally, the fact that the same Passport can be used for a 3 Star Group as a 1 Star Group should make it more profitable to use that passport for the higher Star Group. In this case, however, the programming is faulty. I seldom have received more than 3 Lunch Boxes from a 2 Star Group and often only 2, the same number I ordinarily receive from the 1 Star Group. 3 Star is worse... Jane has twice the number of Orders of any other Guest in that group, so you wait about forever for THAT to finish... and in two cases, I received NO LUNCH BOX at from her. I actually received 3 Lunch Boxes in total from the 3 Star Group more than once, no more than the total given by the 2 Star Group. Note however that another player has reported she gained only 1 Lunch Box from a 1 Star Group, so even there the results are random.
What this means in practical terms is, that if you need 4 Lunch Boxes per day to reach the total needed for the Springtime Base Merge in the Factory before the option expires on 9 April, you may fall short even if you invite the 2 or 3 Star Groups. You may have to use more than one Passport each day to reach the goal. If you wish to use the least amount of your own supplies and still achieve the goal, it probably is just as good to invite the 1 Star Group twice, receiving 4 Lunch Boxes per day or invite the 2 Star Group, hoping for 4 Lunch Boxes and, if you receive less, invite THEM or the 1 Star Group again. The 3 Star Group takes too much from your farm in supplies and time and more often than not, does not give any more Lunch Boxes than the 2 Star Group.
Spring Picnic 1, 2 and 3 Star Groups
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There are 3 Star levels for the Spring Picnic Guests.
1 Star Guest Requirements
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The 1 Star Group does not need to be unlocked but there is a Path Requirement if you wish to be able to invite them.
To invite, you must have: 10 Paths
2 Star Guest Requirements
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The Requirements for 2 Star are:
To invite, you must have: 35 Paths
Unlocking the 2 Star Level requires:
Reach Lv 27
1500 coins
6 telescopes
The 2 Star Group consists of:
Tom
George
Antonio
Huey
3 Star Guest Requirements
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The requirements for inviting the 3 Star Group are:
To unlock 3 Star:
Reach Level 30
Have 500 Landscape Points
Earn 15000 Coins from 2 Star Guests
12 Telescopes
The 3 Star Guest Group consists of:
Tom
George
Antonio
Huey
Jane
All of the above give a total of 4 Orders with the exception of Jane, who gives 8. The number of Orders has absolutely no bearing on the number of Lunch Boxes you may receive from any Guest.
Spring Picnic 1 Star Guest Orders:
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Antonio and Huey give 4 Orders each and after these are filled, you will receive 1 Material from each for your Base.
4 Orders each
Antonio
1 Butter
3 apple juice
4 honey
1 butter
1 Lunch Box
Huey
1 Kvass
4 cherries
4 honey
4 honey
1 Lunch Box
Another order list:
Antonio
1 butter
3 ketchup
3 apple juice
1 butter
1 Lunch Box
Huey
6 apples
1 kvass
1 kvass
1 apple jelly
1 Lunch Box
Third time
Huey asked for a sandwich
Third time Asgard
Huey asked for 2 orange juice
Another variation:
Antonio
1 Rose
1 Whole Wheat Fruit Bread
6 Apples
1 Sandwich
Huey
1 Sandwich
1 Apple Jelly
2 Orange Juice
1 Kvass
2 Star Guest Order Lists:
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Huey
15 apples
15 Apples
7 Orange Juice
1 Kvass
Only Coins!
Antonio
4 Butter
4 Butter
4 Butter
11 Honey
Only Coins!
George:
1 Tropical Fruit Muffin
9 Duck Eggs
1 Tropical Fruit Muffin
1 Sandwich
1 Lunch Box, 400 Coins
Tom
2 Coffee Biscuits
1 Homemade Burger Set
1 Pain au Chocolat
2 Coffee Biscuits
Only Coins!
Another 2 Star Group List
Antonio
1 Sandwich
1 Sandwich
4 Butter
8 Apple Juice
1 Lunch Box
Tom:
1 Speculoos
6 Cherry Juice
7 Beef Salami
1 Pain au Chocolat
1 Lunch Box, 600 Coins
George
1 Tropical Fruit Muffin
1 Tropical Fruit Muffin
1 Tropical Fruit Muffin
1 Tropical Fruit Muffin
Coins after 2 orders
1 Lunch Box, 500 Coins
Huey
1 Sandwich
1 Sandwich
11 Honey
1 Kvass
1 Lunch Box, 600 Coins
One more 2 Star Guest Order List:
Antonio:
4 Butter
4 Butter
4 Butter
1 Whole Oat Fruit Bread
1 Lunch Box, 800 Coins
700 Coins
George
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1 Sandwich
1 Speculoos
1 Sandwich
1 Sandwich
700 Coins
500 Coins
No Lunch Box!
Tom:
1 Pain au chocolat
2 Coffee Biscuits
1 Pain au chocolat
6 Cherry Juice
1 Lunch Box, 400 Coins
400 Coins
Huey
1 Sandwich
1 Kvass
1 Sandwich
1 Kvass
700 Coins
400 Coins
No Lunch box!
Another 2 Star Group:
1 Lunch Box only... 3 of the guests gave only coins!
3 Star Guest Orders
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The 3 Star Guests are Huey, Tom, Jane, Antonio and George
Antonio
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4 Orders
9 Butter
9 Butter
23 Honey
9 Butter
1 Lunch Box
Coins
Huey
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4 Orders
1 Apple Jelly
2 Rose
2 Sandwiches
1 Whole Oat Fruit Bread
1 Lunch Box
1 Lunch Box
George
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1 Tropical Fruit Muffin
2 Sandwich
1 Tropical Fruit Muffin
1 Tropical Fruit Muffin
Coins
Coins
No Lunch Box!!!
Tom
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4 Orders
2 Homemade Burger Set
4 Coffee Biscuits
2 Speculoos
1 Pain au Chocolat
500 Coins
600 Coins
No Lunch Box!
Jane
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8 Orders
4 Chocolate Egg
1 Meatloaf
1 Whole Oat Fruit Bread
4 Chocolate Eggs
1 Whole Oat Fruit Bread
1 Vegetarian Brunch
4 Chocolate Eggs
1 Whole Oat Fruit Bread
400 Coins
600 Coins
Only more coins
NO LUNCH BOX!
3 Star Guest Visit with Orders from Nony Mous:
Level 3 Special Guests' Orders (page numbers for kitchen included)
Tom
2 Speculoos (pg 4)
4 Coffee biscuits (pg 1)
2 Speculoos (pg 4)
4 Coffee biscuits (pg 1)
Huey
Apple juice
Kvass (pg 5)
1 Apple Jelly (pg 8)
1 Whole Oat Fruit Bread (pg 8)
George
2 Sandwiches (pg 18)
1 Tropical Fruit Muffin (pg 10)
2 Sandwiches (pg 18)
1 Tropical Fruit Muffin (pg 10)
9 Butter ( pg 4)
9 Butter
23 Honey
? Apple juice
Jane
8 Orders
1 Whole Oat Fruit Bread (pg 8)
? Lemon Tea (island item - requires Tea Master)
1 Meatloaf (pg 25)
:? Bamboo baskets (island item - requires Panda/bamboo tree/basket machine)
(some of these items were ordered again, but player does not recall specifics)
Results for other Players
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Nony Mous, a member of our Family Farm Seaside Freyashawk Group had similar experiences. She wrote: Special Guests: most of the time, guests do not give lunch boxes. This has been my consistent experience with Levels 1, 2, & 3. After not receiving ANY lunch boxes from guests on two separate visits, I have been paying TC to have the Level 3 guests come. Twice after paying for Level 3, I received ZERO boxes. At the rate unpaid guests are giving lunch boxes, it will be mathematically impossible for anyone to acquire enough boxes by April 9 to complete one base, let alone two. And even if you pay TC for extra passports, your guests do not always give boxes, which they should if one pays for them to come. I've written to support about this, but have yet to receive a response. Thus far, after paying for Level 3 to come five times, I have only 10 lunch boxes, and these include what I received from the other guests as well. So only 10 boxes from 8 visits, and with FOUR visits garnering ZERO lunch boxes (2 paid & 2 unpaid.) Additionally, these guests, especially Level 3, ask for excess amounts of goods, much like the previous special guests who wanted loads of chocolate. These mostly want butter, sandwiches, meat loaf, and chocolate eggs. Jane is the hardest guest and takes the longest time. I use auto bargain until only Jane is left, then call my slowest pets back home.
Lighthouse Springtime Base Mission
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The following quest sequence, if completed fully should give you one Springtime Base.
Farm Fest I
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Darryl: I'm getting the hang of playing my new guitar and I started a band called '3 Farmers and a Cow'. Even Felicia said we sound good! I have an idea! We could invite our neighbours to our farm for a music festival - Farm Fest!
Produce 50 Veggie Burgers
Skip for 25 RC
Prepare 10 Whole Oat Fruit Breads
Skip for 10 RC
Each requires 1 Fruit Butter and 1 Oat Bread
Each Fruit Butter requires 1 Apple Jelly and 3 Cherries
Each Apple Jelly requires 2 Maple Syrup and 6 Apple Jam
Harvest 5 Gisela Cherries
Skip for 5 RC
Reward: 80 Coins, 16 XP
Darryl: I'm already really excited! I hope our neighbours know some bands that can also rock out on the stage!
Farm Fest II
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Darryl: Great news! People are coming to Farm Fest and we now have more bands to play. I am not sure what the order will be yet, but no festival can take place on a farm without having some cider. Selling it will also keep Grandma happy.
Produce 20 jars of Orange Jam
Skip for 20 RC
Prepare 10 bottles of Apple Cider
Skip for 10 RC
Each requires 2 Yeast and 3 Apples
Prepare 10 bottles of Cherry Cider
Skip for 10 RC
Each requires 3 Yeaast and 2 Cherries
Darryl: The Cider is ready! We need o get some seats for the audience. I know what we can do. We can use some hay!
Reward: 85 Coins, 17 XP
Farm Fest III
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Darryl: We can bundle together pasture to make hay for the seats! It's quite comfy and people can even dance on it. We should also make some juice as it's going to be quite hot I hope!
Plant 20 Pineapples
Skip for 20 RC
Harvest 50 Pasture
Skip for 25 RC
Cook 5 Macaroni and Cheese in the Stove House
Skip for 5 RC
This is made in the Stove House. Each requires 3 Wheat Flour and 2 Cheddar Cheese
Reward: 90 Coins, 18 XP
Darryl: Okay, that's the seating sorted. Now it's time to think about food and volunteers for the event. Still lots to do!
Farm Fest IV
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Darryl: Oops, I forgot about the juice. And we need some t-shirts to identify the volunteers helping with the running of the event on the big day!
Prepare 8 Orange Smoothies
Skip for 8 RC
Each requires 1 Condensed Milk and 1 Orange Jam
Collect 10 Volunteer T-shirts from Neighbours
Skip for 10 RC
Prepare 20 plates of Grape Cornbread
Skip for 20 RC
Each requires 1 No-Flour Cornbread and 2 Grape Jam
Each No-Flour Cornbread requires 2 Buffalo Milk Cheese and 1 Cornmeal
Reward: 100 Coins, 20 XP
Darryl: The volunteers will come soon. We need to give them their t-shirts and make some more food for them to eat when they help set up.
End of Part I. Take the Farm Fest Icon and place it in the empty spot on the left side of the page that matches its form.
The second half of the Mission now can be activated whenever you wish. Note that this is the first Gallery Mission that requires access to the Island and it is in the second half, in the very first group of tasks, that you will be required to produce Mohair. Again, you will have a limited time to complete it once you activate it. Many thanks to Kathy Marcum from our Group, Family Farm Seaside Freyashawk for logging the next group of tasks.
Farm Fest V
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Darryl: We still need some food to sell and maybe we should have some blankets. We can make them from wool and Mohair. People can use them if they feel cold at night!
Prepare 5 Meatloaf
Skip for 5 RC
Each requires 1 Grilled Flank Steak and 1 Cheese Burger
Each Grilled Flank Steak requires 8 Beef and 2 Ketchup
Produce 40 Wool
Skip for 20 RC
Produce 15 Mohair Yarn
Skip for 8 RC
This is an Island task.
Reward: 100 Coins, 20 XP
Darryl: The stage looks amazing. I can't wait to rock 'n roll on it and see the other bands playing!
Farm Fest VI
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Darryl: 3 Farmers and a Cow have had a sneaky practice and will be opening the festival to warm the crowd up. We managed to secure ACRC who are headlining, I can't wait!
Harvest 4 Ice Cubes
Skip for 4 RC
Produce 4 Matcha Orange Ice Cream
Skip for 4 RC
Each requires 1 Matcha and 1 Orange Ice Cream
Prepare 6 plates of Fish and Potatoes
Skip for 6 RC
Each requires 1 Potatoes with Fresh Herbs and 1 Lemon Fish
Each Potatoes with Fresh Herbs requires 2 Sweet Potatoes and 1 Herb
Each Lemon Fish requires 1 Butterfish and 1 Lemon
Reward: 110 Coins, 22 XP
That's enough food and drink! Now it's time for the event. I'm so excited, I hope it doesn't rain, the campers will not be happy!
Farm Fest VII
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We rocked out, people were even dancing! I think I even saw Grandma dancing, maybe the cider we made was too strong... But the other bands are really good and lots of people are buying food!
Produce 15 Tiramisu
Skip for 15 RC
Prepare 5 Allspice Crumbles
Skip for 5 RC
Each requires 3 Spice and 1 Orange Crumble
Prepare 10 plates of Kulfi
Skip for 10 RC
Each requires 1 Batter and 1 Nectar
Rewards: 120 Coins, 23 XP
Darryl: We played quite well, maybe I will become a rock star! The food went down a treat and the final band ACRC will finish soon.
Farm Fest VIII
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Darryl: Some people didn't even make it to their tents, haha. Felicia just fell asleep on the hay! I bet she danced too much. I'll wake her up so she can help me make breakfast. She will not be happy!
Prepare 8 Elderberry Pancakes
Each requires 2 Appple Kulfi and 1 Elderberry
Each Apple Kulfi requires 1 Kulfi and 2 Apple Jam
Produce 40 Oat Bread
Produce 12 Blueberry Jam
Skip for 12 RC
Darryl: What a success! Lots of tidying up to do but we can keep the stage. Maybe we'll have Farm Fest next year. It has put our farm on the map!
Reward: 120 Coins, 25 XP
Go to the Gallery and swipe the Farm Fest T-shirt icon from the right side of the page into the empty slot on the left. You will receive 50 Green Mystrons, 5 Medals and the Springtime Base as your Reward.
Go to your Gift Box to find the Springtime Base. It is worth 32 Charm and is a Cleanable Decoration, although it yields only a Purple Gift Box as well as being a Theme Decoration in the current Park Farm Beauty Contest.
Final Reward: Springtime Base
New Update
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Batch Cleaning Option
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Note on 22 April: I do believe this is sorting itself out now and the Clean Tickets option now represents the actual condition of the farms that your pet visits.
Please note that game is extremely glitchy at present and inconsistent so everything I wrote below may vary from farm to farm... will update when the developers sort it all out.
You now can obtain 'Clean Tickets' from your Country Club Packages (based on the amount you have spent in the game over time) and in Pet Chests that you open. Open your Neighbours Menu, click the Brush and choose the Neighbour you want to visit remotely. During this period you will not be able to visit any Neighbours but you can 'x' out the animation of your Pet to work on your farm and even travel to your Island or vice versa. It actually is your Pet who visits the Neighbour and it takes 10 to 12 seconds to complete for each Neighbour or Buddy chosen. If you send your Pet to more than one Buddy or Neighbour in a single action, the time will be multiplied by the number he or she visits, limited to 20 at a time. When the action completes, claim the Reward.
When you initiate the process, you will see the following: Are you sure you want to use 1 Clean Ticket? You can use them to collect Cleaning Gift Boxes, Cooking Gift Bags, get Neighbour Rewards and Help your Neighbour all at once.
Note that this is an extra option that carries its own price in the form of the Clean Ticket. You can still visit the same neighbour or Buddy in the ordinary way and claim Rewards manually or perform actions that are not given through the Clean Ticket option. Most important, in my view, is the special Buddy interactions in the form of feeding a Pet or tending a Buddy Tree... an automated Pet Visit will not perform these actions for you!
Originally, one was receiving the same Rewards from every Neighbour, irrespective of any real differences between farms. Now they appear to have sorted out this rather nice glitch and the Rewards are based on the farms you visit. In other words, if a Farm has the Cooking Bag icon showing in the Neighbour Menu and you choose the automated Visit, you should receive a Cooking Bag from that visit. If the Farmer has Blue Box Decorations, you should receive a Blue Box but if only Purple Boxes, that is what you will receive. The game still is glitchy so do not take this as gospel yet!
You can choose different options, by the way in terms of the automated Visit: Island rather than Seaside, Purple Gift Boxes rather than Blue...
Note that you can tap on the 'x' in the corner of the screen to get rid of the animation that shows your Pet cavorting across the screen on his or her way to other farms and there is no problem with gameplay even when you have the option activated for 20 Neighbours/Buddies. 20 is the maximum you can activate at any given time, but if you wish to use more Tickets, simply start a new session. Players are able to use the tickets to visit their Buddies more than once in a way, but this may not have been intended either. Again will revise this post in a few days depending on how game changes.
Whatever rewards your Pet earns from a neighbour probably will not be available if you visit the same neighbour manually afterwards. On other words, many players report that, if the Neighbour had dishes at the Cooking Stand and your Pet claimed the Reward during a Clean Ticket visit, you will not be able to claim that one again on the same day from that Neighbour.
Feeding Your Pets
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A very welcome change in the form of the ability now to feed your Active Pets from the Pet House without forcing them to return home. You therefore can go to your Pet House during any Guest Visit to give your Pets Food to restore their Stamina without having to search for them or try to dodge behind a large imposing guest to obtain the Food Menu for that Pet. Wonderful!
Fishing Trade Shop
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This is a wonderful new option. Note that you now can sell your fish at the Pier for shells and then use the Shells to 'buy' the Fish you want. If you use the Coin Shop, you should have some fish that are fairly valuable but never used in Recipes such as the Flower Horn Cichlid that sells for 225 Shells or the Seahorse selling for 228 shells. You can buy a Mackerel for 273 Shells for example..
To use this option, tap on the icon of the fish on a scale to the right of the actual pier. You will see one tab for selling and one for buying.
If you have a fully upgraded Goldfinger tech, you can make any Smoked Fish in your Smokehouse using the Tech even if you do not have any actual Fish in your Barn of the sort you are smoking.
Experience Bank
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Old maximum Level of 150 no longer applies but when you reach that level, you will see a new XP bar at the top left of the screen. Through this you can reach your 'Experience Bank' where you can use your XP to purchase Bonus Tickets. With these tickets you can purchase a Bonus Lucky Item for 10 Tokens or a Poodle Card for 40 Bonus Tickets. The Poodle Cards operate in the same way as any Pet Card. When you have 100 Poodle Cards, you can trade them for a Poodle. As always, the gender of the Pet will be random.
